# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:56:04.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-watson"
name: "Peter Watson"
slug: "peter-watson"
description: "Peter Frank Patrick Watson is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities."
tagline: "Art historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_watson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.708534666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson_(istoric)"
    title: "Peter Watson (istoric)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "بيتر واتسون (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "بيتر واتسون (مؤرخ من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson"
    title: "Peter Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson_(Journalist)"
    title: "Peter Watson (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson_(intellectual_historian)"
    title: "Peter Watson (intellectual historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson"
    title: "Peter Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson"
    title: "Peter Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watson_(journaliste)"
    title: "Peter Watson (journaliste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2078892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump